I just picked up a Galaxy S2 refurb from ATT for a penny. I was pleasantly surprised by the camera! The Galaxy S2 has an 8MP camera which takes fairly good pictures. Here are some example shots I took today: Original images off the camera available here (21MB .zip).
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CyanogenMod CM7 Fix for Choppy 720p Video Recording
CyanogenMod 7 is the premier Android distribution. However 720p video record is sometimes problematic on certain model phones in that frames drop giving choppy and poor quality video. Alas there is a fix! I picked up this tip from a user on xda-developer.This will fix the choppy video by lowering the bitrate which is a
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flac – Audio Codec of Choice
Similar to MP3 (but lossless), flac is an audio codec for your music. Instead of ripping to MP3, consider ripping to flac! flac stands for free lossless audio codec Why choose flac? flac is awesome for various reasons: Entire original source file is retained (excellent for CD archiving _with_ metatags!) Zero quality loss (lossless) Can
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scottlinux.com RSS feed url update
The RSS url for scottlinux.com has been updated to simply: http://scottlinux.com/feed The previous somewhat weird url ‘http://scottlinux.com/?feed=rss2′ now redirects to the above correct one. However, you may have to update your RSS readers. Apologies and safe hacking,
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Privacy Inspector – Android
There is a great free Android app called Privacy Inspector which scans your apps to find out what they are doing with your phone’s information. Most of this sort of info is collected and sold to advertisers. In this example, I’ll scan the Engadget app to see what information it is snooping from my phone.
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Amazon Cloud Player and Cloud Drive Review
scottlinux here with a quick review of the Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player. I love Amazon mp3s and their Cloud Player for many reasons: Purchased music is not tied to any one device or any device. No DRM! Play from anywhere you have an internet connection. Your music is always available! Upload your
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